"talking back" and INKHEAD on the F train to Jay St. (a poem sorta)
"talking back" and INKHEAD on the F train to Jay St. (a poem sorta)
1.
maybe all the poems i have ever written are dedicated to anna julia cooper
2.
there are children in bed-stuy who need poetry
not the poems i write for them
but the poems they craft through
silences, out bursts or purple bubblegum
they speak place like this...
and they speak truth like this...
and they speak right like this...
their poems are slightly tilted and behind the beat
on purpose
they play a phonograph
only laminated floors and
windowless walls understand
huh?
what you mean?
their resistance is not slogans on placards
or ph.d’s or worksheets or
coloring inside the line
3.
they are not fond of translation
4.
and can smell bullshit creeping up from miles away
they got highly developed sensory capabilities
5.
"the path to conocimiento" to transforming consciousness-is neither linear nor easy"
6.
bell hooks writes about "talking back"
as INKHEAD tags himself over industrial bodies
and i manuver my way back to brooklyn for
poems and awakenings
my teachers rock the flyest sneakers/ with t-shirts to match
know who is really home
and who aint really ready yet
____________________
please note: quote from gloria anzaldua found in
anna julia cooper, visionary black feminist by vivian may
Sunday, March 30, 2008
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